Concept information
Preferred term
business ethics
Definition
- Business ethics is an academic field that studies moral and immoral action not only of individuals in business organizations but also of organizations as such. Business ethics is also concerned with the moral nature of the economic system in which individuals and their organizations act and think. [Source: International Encyclopedia of Organization Studies; Business Ethics]
Broader concept
Narrower concepts
- accounting ethics
- applied business ethics
- business regulation
- cases in business ethics
- corporate social responsibility
- corporations and the environment
- economics and ethics
- employee issues in business ethics
- finance ethics
- information ethics
- management ethics
- marketing ethics
- organizations (business ethics)
- theories of ethics
Belongs to group
URI
https://concepts.sagepub.com/social-science/concept/business_ethics
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